The temperature on November 20, 1868 was about -1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
February 24 » Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
May 14 » Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward.
August 18 » French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
October 10 » The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
November 4 » Camagüey, Cuba, revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War.
Day of marriage May 13, 1896
The temperature on May 13, 1896 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
Day of death July 30, 1942
The temperature on July 30, 1942 was between 9.3 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 23 » World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
February 14 » Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
April 17 » French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
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